cyberhobo

Author: cyberhobo

  • Restaurant: Sizzler

    I had a salad bar at the Sizzler last night. It’s like a regular salad bar, plus all the TV dinners you can eat.

  • Beaten

    I’ve sustained my first climbing injury since I started more than a year ago. Thankfully it’s just a minor ankle sprain, and will probably heal fast. It happened at the notoriously pumpy Owen’s River Gorge, on the notoriously pumpy route Show Us Your Tits (10b). I thought I had become strong enough to take on…

  • Movie: Run Silent, Run Deep

    I decided to watch this to compare it with Das Boot. A disappointment. It winds up playing like a Navy recruitment film, and doesn’t come close to expressing the gravity of submarine warfare the way Das Boot does. A strange irony to contemplate: maybe being on the winning side leaves less room for honest artistic…

  • Movie: Tomb Raider

    The fact that I am admitting I watched this movie is a better review than I expected to give it :!:. Way better than the Red Sonya-type modern sex heroine flick I thought I was in for, but still no match for Tank Girl.

  • Gear: The Ozark Trail Screenhouse

    Need instructions? If you have the 13’x10′ model, your prayers are answered! Here is a PDF of the owner’s manual. Commenters report good service by calling 1-800-775-1965 for other models. Commenters have also, in the spirit of empiricism and reverse engineering, written their own instructions for the 14′ x 12′ and the 10′ x 13′…

  • Domelands

    Ann and I spent three days and two nights backpacking and climbing in the domelands this weekend. We encountered many things: A young rattlesnake right under our feet, endless stands and varieties of flowers, a wade through a swampy beaver pond, a thrilling rock climb up Moon Dome (posted in Climbing), an accidental dunk in…

  • Surpise Symphony (5.8 ) on Moon Dome

    Ann and I did our (and my) most adventurous route yet this weekend: The route is highlighted with a dot between each pitch. The trees are so big that you don’t get a correct sense of scale – the end of the first pitch is about 180 feet up! Because of the 10 mile approach…

  • Have faith in cardboard

    Sitting by an onramp with a cardboard sign my be a great career move.

  • Have I become a flower freak?

    I can’t help it, the desert flowers are blowing my mind. This is a prickly pear at my friend’s house in Joshua Tree. When we left to go climbing there were only buds, and upon return a bee was already hard at work in the blossom. There were also lillies blooming all over the place…

  • Lunar Eclipse at Wagon Wheel

    Another sight to add to the amazing things I’ve seen at Wagon Wheel, the area where I boulder. The moon rose over the desert hills already well into the earth’s shadow, and put on a three hour show.